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By choosing the Valerie Upham Team to sell your home, you will have access to our extensive expertise and resources. Our team is dedicated to providing the highest level of service and achieving exceptional results.
We utilize a range of effective marketing strategies to ensure that your property receives maximum exposure. Our in-depth knowledge of the local real estate market, combined with our well-established networks, positions us to sell your home for the best price in the shortest amount of time.
We are confident that our team will exceed your expectations and deliver a seamless, successful sales experience.
Working with our in-house marketing and advertising agency, we will target the right audience across the most effective channels through cohesive branding — all to elevate the style and story of your home. When prospective buyers evaluate a home, they seek a space that they can make their own.
A few simple shifts can dramatically impact your listing's perceived appeal. We'll work together to elevate your home's value and create a tailored plan to maximize its potential on the market. Proponents of powerful imagery, we invest in visual editors, creative producers and the industry's most respected photographers to capture your home's finest selling points.
A Private Exclusive listing is an off-market home that we can share directly with Compass colleagues. Property details aren’t disseminated and won’t appear on public home search websites. Listing your home as a Private Exclusive allows you to control what information is shared, while still getting exposure to top agents at Compass.
Privacy is the ultimate commodity and the decision to sell your home is a personal one.
Decide when to share details about your home, including price, more broadly on your own timing.
Retain exposure to Compass agents, including premium placement on our agent facing platform.
Get the best offer by testing the market privately to gather key insights without your listing getting stale.
Drive buyer interest with Compass Coming Soon, which affords prospective buyers a glimpse of your home before it officially comes on the market.
Listing your property first on Compass Coming Soon can build anticipation among potential buyers, drive up its value, and shorten the sales timeline.
Coming Soon creates two opportunities to launch your property: First on Compass.com and then later when the listing goes live on the MLS and aggregate sites.
Testing the market with Coming Soon helps your listing to perform even better, once it opens to the public. You’ll gain invaluable insights on pricing, photos, and positioning.
Backed by a proven process, Compass listings spend 19 fewer days on market than the industry average. A swifter sale means a more seamless seller experience and greater value for you. The next owner of your home could be searching for properties anywhere. That’s why we’ll pair predictive data with a multifaceted marketing plan — to ensure your listing is seen by each and every prospect.
Aided by state-of-the-art Compass technology, we're strategically connected to the market's entire brokerage community. At the forefront of modern marketing, we take a multi-pronged approach to the digital promotion of your property. Once we are live we can toast to our future success of your listing selling for the highest possible price in the shortest amount of time.
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to